this is a question of future economic opportunity here how is the economy going to grow? what kind of life our our people going to lead? that's why this matters so much. when you get to a gross debt of more than 100% of gdp, your future economic prospects are reduced. well, we've talked about the revenue side of the equation, the spending side of the equation. looking at the revenue, i showed a slight earlier to show the revenues at 1520% of gdp. typically if you look at the economic history of the country last 30 years, average revenue has been about 18.6% of gdp. but the last five times we have balanced the budget, revenue was not at 18.6% of gdp. it was close to 20%. you can see in 69, 98, 99, 2000, 2001, revenue and the times we balance was close to 20% at gdp. that kind of sets up the question of what the president proposed, because he was calling for $1.6 trillion of additional revenue. remember, that's not what we got in his last deal. it was 650 billion. but what he was going for was $1.6 trillion of revenue over the next six years. to put that in context, how muc